I wonder why Osama Bin Laden don't go help these Monks in Burma? China not helping is the same why US not helping African nations. They want to protect their investments in Burma. Will Monks turn to violent ways?

Webbie, Salem, OR

Best not to tell Bush where Burma is located as it is rich in gas and oil! Well, guess with Chevron building pipelines he'll probably find out.

May peace come to Burma through non-violent means.

Carol, CA,

The activists should boycott China, Thailand and Singapore , Malaysia who are taking advantage of Burmese people's plight. All rich generals visit Bangkok and Singapore for shopping and medical care. Poor people go to Malaysia and Thailand to work as laborers. Poor women go to China to be wives of peasants or go to Thailand to work as servants or prostitutes.
Why impose sanctions on Burma only which only hurt poor people.
Why not boycott trading with China and Russia for protecting the junta.

Why activists only conveniently select Burma , not China nor Vietnam nor Russia??

Please be fair, 53 million people are lost and depressed of your acts.

khin, Yangon , Myanmar

My prayers are with these people. These monks and the people who support them show that there is still hope for humanity. May there mission of peaceful protest to bring down a powerful and cruel "government" prove successful.

Makes me wish that the US would help people like this instead of invading countries which don't really want us there.

David, Hernando, USA / FL

Where is Bush and his oh so glorified war against Terror now? Why isn't Cheney more demanding in the support for a preemptive strike followed up by a surge of his great special forces into a land that so vividly have been suppressed by its military junta which conducts atrocities against its own citizens? Where is the Bush administrations threats of accountability against the Burmese / Myanmar Junta?

Ah! Got it, they play in the same league right?

LiberalRebel, Stockholm, Sweden

I agree with the previous opijnions empahtically. China will provide whatever legal cover they can for Burma because both countries know that as their dictatorial leaders stand more and more firm, they also come closer and closer to being too inflexible to bend to their subject's aspirations. Aspirations for normal lives. It will get better eventually, but the stakes are SO high, things will have to get a LOT worse before they get better.
N. Korea and a few other regions are also watching.
Democracy is breathing in the world. It is a dream that will not die. Our hopes are with the Burmese monks, as much as we hoped in Ghandi so many years ago (a bit different reason?) Can they keep pulling off new kinds of peaceful protests? Of course they can. They wil be effective when they begin to relaize they have public opinion on their side. I think all the monks have to do is keep morphing peaceful tactics so the generals have a new kind of peaceful protest to deal with every week.

Praying4Burma, Wichita, Kansas, USA

The story is really good. As the monks said international should take a big concern for the Burmese military has killed the people and the monks. The dead toll will be higher than the number of people knew.

chan aie, Kanchanaburi, Thailand

The reason that the UN is doing so little is because of China. Although afraid to say so publicly, the Chinese government is in complete support of the methods used by the Burmese military. Do not forget that Burmese crackdown of 1988 was followed by a similar crackdown in China in 1989 at Tianamen Square.

David Lovell, Crown Point, IN, US

All human organizations have a tendency to perversity; they become self-aggrandizing and solipsistic, thus increasingly inefficient. Competition is the cure. When an organization is in a monopoly position, the corrective can not function: then, the natural tendency proceeds inexorably toward catastrophe. Catastrophe is the ultimate corrective.
Democracy is not as much about getting the right people into power as it is about getting the wrong ones out - peacefully.

Carlton Godbold, Lubbock, Texas U.S.A.

Of course the govt' long ago disarmed the citizens (like the U.S. Govt' is trying to do here) and you see the outcome.

T.K., Bath, U.S./SC

I truly hope that the UN will wake up to the fact that it is MORE than sanctions and meetings that can get rid of those despicable tin-pot generals in Burma.

Of course, in the short term it is some kind of negotiations that are essential to a move forward to some kind of democracy but that could still mean the Generals would still be in power and off the hook - That would also be criminal.

JON KEITH, SWANSEA, UK

I truly hope that the UN will wake up to the fact that it is MORE than sanctions and meetings that can get rid of those despicable tin-pot generals in Burma.

Of course, in the short term it is some kind of negotiations that are essential to a move forward to some kind of democracy but that could still mean the Generals would still be in power and off the hook - That would also be criminal.

JON KEITH, SWANSEA, UK